Dallas Mavericks Blog

After Saturday morning’s shootaround at American Airlines Center, Thunder guard Kevin Durant was asked about Jason Terry’s assertion that all the pressure in tonight’s Game 4 is on Oklahoma City.

“We are up 3-0 and close-out games are tough,” Durant said. “We just want to come out here and be us. You can’t worry about anything else. We’ll see what happens.

“It’s not going to be easy. We know this team is a resilient team. They fight to the end. We know it’s going to be a battle, but we’re looking forward to it.”

It’s likely that the Mavericks will come out strong tonight. The key for Oklahoma City will be to weather that early surge. If the Thunder lands a counterpunch, that could reiterate to Dallas that it has a huge obstacle to overcome _ one that no NBA team has ever overcome.

“We know these guy s are never going to give up, never,” Durant said. “Rick Carlisle is a great coach and they have some great players on this team that make big shots, that want to play in this moment. We know that the first three or four minutes are going to be key for us. We just want to come in here and try to take the crowd out of the game early and just try to be us, everything will work itself out.”